The Girl and The Demon: Shower Spider

The Girl and The Demon

Theme: Shower Spider

“Oh, come on! You can not be tired already!”  

Sango leaned forward on her knees, desperately trying to catch her breath. “You . . . are kidding . . . right?”

Kirara bounced from foot to foot as she twirled the tennis racket in her hand.

Even with Kagome and Sango playing against the solo Kirara in human form, the demoness still managed to kill them in 4 rounds of tennis.  She was an animal . . . literally!

Sango fought to regain her breath. “So sorry, but I’m not in as good of shape as you and little miss runs-around-with-demons-for-fun.”

“Hey! Running is fun, and it’s good for you!” Kagome defended, and Sango huffed and shook her head.

“Nerd.” Sango sighed under her breath.

“What was that?” Kagome asked, and all three girls laughed.

They were often like this, teasing and laughing at one another’s expense, but what else was to be expected from three who were closer than blood.

The girls were inseparable since the day Kirara had first been asked to baby sit Kagome and Sango, as well as their younger brothers, infants at the time, Kohaku and Souta. Kirara had fallen in love with the little humans, and now that Kagome and Sango were older, they all attended the same college, the girls out of career opportunity and want, Kirara simple because she had the free time and money with nothing better to waste it on.

Kirara sauntered over to her buddies and threw an arm over each of their shoulders. “Well, I say we hit the showers and rid ourselves of this sweat and dirt.”

“Only if we get ice cream afterword!” Sango smiled.

“Oh! I could go for some vanilla ice cream with Pocky broken into it and cream soda poured over it!” Kagome grinned, her whole body excited at the thought of gorging herself on the sickly sweet treat.

Kirara grinned, her red-orange eyes twinkling with mischief as she winked at Kagome. “Last one to the showers buys!” and as soon as the words left her lips, the Fire-Neko demoness bee-lined for the co-ed showers on the college grounds.

Kagome was quick to follow, her body trained to race with demon slow speeds, and Sango was left in the dust, her mouth unhinged and her eyes locked wide in shock.

“You two are so unfair!” Sango yelled, knowing the demoness and Miko born could hear her, and she went as quickly as she could to the showers.

Soon enough, the three were in their own individual shower stalls, washing the grime and sweat of their games off their bodies.

“Hey, Kagome, you still have some of that green apple body wash?” Sango called loudly, and Kagome laughed just loud enough to be heard over the pelting of the water from the shower heads against the tile floor.

“Yeah, but you know you could just buy your own!” Kagome laughed as she leaned over the low wall of the stall towards her friend and handed her the body wash.

Sango only smirked, “True, but then you would be asking to borrow mine!”

The three laughed, and went about finishing their showers, all salivating over the idea of ice cream.

“Hello ladies!”

Kagome shivered, Sango sneered, and Kirara gagged loudly, as the unwelcome voice echoed through the large room.

Naraku and a few of his usual entourage had just walked in, all of them the worst kind of annoying Hanyo and demon imaginable.

No one, not even other demons, like spider youkai and hanyo. They were sickly to smell, see, and thought the world owed them something. Nothing about demon spiders said friend, and almost all avoided them when they could.

Kirara started to hum the itsy bitsy spider as they all rushed to finish their showers, but the Fire-Neko was going to mess with the little bugs before they did.

“You know,” she said over the wall just high enough to hide her form from everyone else, looking between her two friends, “you have to feel bad for the spider.”

“Yeah, why’s that?”

“Eww, why?”

Sango and Kagome said together, and Naraku, Muso, Hakudoshi, and Juromaru all stopped what they were doing to listen intently to what Kirara was saying.

“Well, the stupid thing never seems to be able get up that pipe, and every time he tries, it rains on him, and he falls out, and yet he keeps on going after that pipe.” Kirara smirked, and Sango caught where she was going with it.

“Oh, so you feel bad that he can never get up?” Sango smirked, her eyes filled with wicked teasing.

Kirara laughed. “That, and he just can’t seem to stay in the hole.”

The three girls laughed loudly, while the boys just didn’t get it.

Clearly, the Spiders bad luck with little wet holes and getting up had been passed down to them.

Kagome was the first to finish her shower, and she also realized she had forgotten her clothes in the changing room.

“Just my luck, my clothes aren’t in here.” Kagome sighed, frustrated with herself.

“You wanna just wait in here for us to finish and go back there with you?” Sango asked, eyeing the perverted spider demons that all had left their stall doors open as they showered.

Kagome wrapped her towel around her body and shook her head. “No, it’s okay. I spar with Ayame, I can handle any of those baka’s.” And Kagome opened her stall.

Just as Kagome stepped out of the shower, a quarter sized, black spider ran across her foot.

Purely out of reaction, Kagome screeched at the top of her lungs, and then lunged to stomp the little spider to death.

“Die! Die! Die, you stupid little pest, die!” Kagome screamed with each slam of her foot on the tile floor, squashing the little arachnid into oblivion.

As Kagome stood, staring down at her foot and the last step she’d taken, she finally took a deep breath and looked up to see everyone in the room looking at her like she'd grown a second head.

“There was a spider . . .” Kagome said, her breathing irregular and her fists clenched tightly to hold her towel up.

The girls burst into fits of boisterous laughter, and the men all glared at Kagome, and the poor human quickly made her way to the changing room, wanting to be away from the scene of the murder she’d just committed.